Members Ultimate DJ Posted June 19, 2011 Members Share Posted June 19, 2011 Hey,I'm not sure if this is the right sub forum for this question but I don't know where else to put it. I recently saw a video that an abnormal amount of hits/likes/comments. I then saw that a lot of their refers were from a place called clipreviewers.com.Is this a place to pay for hits? The site itself doesn't work, you can't click on anything or do anything on the site. Is it legal? thanks guys Dj Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Poker99 Posted June 20, 2011 Members Share Posted June 20, 2011 Pay for Youtube views = are you out of your mind?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators daddymack Posted June 20, 2011 Moderators Share Posted June 20, 2011 actually, some youtube 'hits' generate income. I can't quote numbers, but they will 'share' some of the $ with major hits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Poker99 Posted June 20, 2011 Members Share Posted June 20, 2011 0.0000000001$ a play lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ultimate DJ Posted June 20, 2011 Author Members Share Posted June 20, 2011 You guys are missing what I'm saying. I'm not asking about a company paying a user to hit a video, but a user paying a company for hits. And I wanted to know if clipreviewers.com was one of those companies. Thats all thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators daddymack Posted June 21, 2011 Moderators Share Posted June 21, 2011 wait, so you think they can 'fake' a viral by paying someone a fee to hit their video? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ultimate DJ Posted June 21, 2011 Author Members Share Posted June 21, 2011 wait, so you think they can 'fake' a viral by paying someone a fee to hit their video? Oh I know they can. Its a pretty big business I imagine. http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=99 http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=2203732 http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=2186199 http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=2144455 5000 views for $15 dollars ...etcOr like, over a month period 50000 views. Tons of variations and such. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Poker99 Posted June 21, 2011 Members Share Posted June 21, 2011 And what's the point of doing this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members michael_B Posted June 21, 2011 Members Share Posted June 21, 2011 And what's the point of doing this? Simple. People are big enough sheep and lazy enough that they will see a view count and determine from that alone whether or not they should watch it. Content delivered, ads watched. Videos are also ranked by # of views. The higher the number, the higher up your video will appear in search results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators daddymack Posted June 21, 2011 Moderators Share Posted June 21, 2011 I'm in teh wrong business... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ultimate DJ Posted June 22, 2011 Author Members Share Posted June 22, 2011 And what's the point of doing this? Probably money, in the end. Or for an artist, more views, more popularity, more fans..etc. Some of them are real traffic, meaning real people watching them.Or, in some cases, for a contest to get views, if you know what I mean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators daddymack Posted June 22, 2011 Moderators Share Posted June 22, 2011 nothing new, really...remember the promotional team paid teenage girls to go to JFK Airport and scream for the Beatles in '63... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted June 22, 2011 Members Share Posted June 22, 2011 There are, without any question, a number of 'services' that engage in that form of 'promotion'... it's an outgrowth of the blackhat SEO mini-industry. Anyone with a blog open to outside comment knows about the legions of zombie posters with the bare minimum humanity necessary to pass a CAPTCHA Turin test who then try to fill up your comment section with stuff like "I've been reading your blog for the last hour and it's SO good. I hope to learn how to create a great blog like you have. Oh, and, by the way, here's a great place to buy Viagra and Ciallis..." I see ads for outfits that promise to increase your MySpace visitors (Remember them? Apparently the blackhatters do!), crank up your media listens and views, and so on, and, of course, to increase your search engine rankings. (Not quite the thing for bands it is for conventional businesses, of course, except maybe for show and events bands, cover bands, and such.) nothing new, really...remember the promotional team paid teenage girls to go to JFK Airport and scream for the Beatles in '63... Until SoundScan introduced a modicum of accuracy and legit counts into album sales tracking, it was extremely common for labels to send buyers out to key reporters (supposedly influential indie record stores, many near colleges or in trendy areas of big cities) and make strategic buys of key albums -- sometimes in bulk and typically with full knowledge and complicity of the record store owners -- in order to drive up the reported sales. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Poker99 Posted June 23, 2011 Members Share Posted June 23, 2011 Simple. People are big enough sheep and lazy enough that they will see a view count and determine from that alone whether or not they should watch it. Content delivered, ads watched. Videos are also ranked by # of views. The higher the number, the higher up your video will appear in search results. It could have worked years ago. Now, too much people and artists are doing it. It can probably produce views, I agree with you about people being sheep... but turn a profit from that, I don't think so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members michael_B Posted June 23, 2011 Members Share Posted June 23, 2011 It could have worked years ago. Now, too much people and artists are doing it. It can probably produce views, I agree with you about people being sheep... but turn a profit from that, I don't think so. Well, as to it "working", I don't know. Depends on what you are going for. Making money? I'm sure the outfit you are paying to increase your view count will be much more profitable then the artist will, but who know? If it was cheap enough I might give it a whirl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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